A new study has found that those women with poorly controlled diabetes are more susceptible to hearing loss than those women who control their diabetes with medication. The results of a study from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA found a link between diabetes and hearing loss in women but not in men.
The study reviewed the hearing records of almost 1000 patients and assessed their age, gender, and whether they had diabetes. The results showed that hearing loss was found in all diabetic women, particularly those younger than 60 years of age, for those women between the ages of 60 and 75, the worst levels of hearing loss were observed in women with poorly controlled diabetes.
The researchers at the hospital have proposed that future studies focus on the association of gender and hearing loss but also that the study points to the “…importance of patients controlling their diabetes…”
